Is Bing the Search Engine of the Future?

I’ve avoided talking about Bing because I kinda think web search is boring. Don’t get me wrong. It’s definitely a vital tool, but Google already has that on lock and we’ve already seen new search engines try to step to Google and fail miserably. Then again, I remember when Altavista was my search engine of [...]

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iPod Touch-Killer? Microsoft Unveils the Zune HD

With blurry videos, questionable images, and juicy bits of info popping up here and there, the question on everyone’s minds was does it or does it not exist. Last week, Microsoft confirmed the rumors about a new iteration of the popular PMP, the Zune. In it’s continuing battle to overtake the iPod in sales, Zune [...]

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Walkman Series X: Sony’s Still a Contender

Remember when the Sony ruled the portable music market? It seemed like everyone and their mama had a Walkman or a CD Walkman. Fast forward to the present, and oh how the mighty have fallen. With the advent of MP3 and MP4 digital music formats, Sony has lost its footing in the portable music market [...]

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Time Warner Splitting AOL, Preparing for Possible Sale

Time Warner Inc., announced that they will be splitting AOL’s dial-up Internet and advertising business into separate divisions by early 2009. This announcement follows major budget cuts to AOL’s blogging properties as well as complete cuts of some of AOL’s products including; Bluestring, Xdrive and AOL Pictures, according to an internal memo from Kevin Conroy, [...]

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The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008

Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com

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Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008

Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in favor [...]

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Microsoft Releases Preview of New of Robotics Platform, and new portal called robochamps

Microsoft released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, the new version of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 contains improvements in its runtime performance, distributed computational capabilities and tools. Scheduled for release later this year, the first preview of the product is now available for evaluation and [...]

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